Two volumes (photostatic copies) consisting of volume one, 1809-1949 (memoir, biography and family history) and second volume of correspondence, 1853-1876, related to the career of Madame Sophia Sosnowski and her related Polish-American family lines in South Carolina and Georgia. Persons represented in these two volumes include members of the Sosnowski family of Polish and German descent who settled in South Carolina during the mid-19th century. German-born Sophia Wentz Sosnowski (1809-1899) and her husband Joseph Stanislaus Sosnowski (1800 or 1806-1845), a captain in the Polish army, came to New York via France shortly after their marriage in 1833. Following her husband's death, Madame Sosnowski moved the family to Columbia, S.C., and opened the South Carolina Female Collegiate Institute at Barhamville. Madame Sosnowski became renowned as a teacher of languages, literature, and vocal music. After the Civil War much of the family resettled in Athens, Ga., where Madame Sosnowski taught at the Lucy Cobb Institute and later operated her own school, known as the Home School. Sophia Augusta Sosnowski married Colonel Frank E. Schaller (1835-1881), who had been stationed in Columbia, S.C., during the Civil War. The new Schaller family also settled in Georgia and maintained close ties with the Sosnowski family. Dr. Julius Christian Sosnowski (1840-1876) married Susan Grace Townsend and resided with her family at Bleak Hall on Edisto Island, S.C. Volume, 1809-1949 (letter size - photostatic copy) consisting of biographical information on Madame Sosnowski, her teaching career at the Home School in Athens, Ga., and elsewhere, and other members of the family, an extended memoir written ca. 1909, compiled by Madam Sosnowski's granddaughter, Ida Schaller, with an introduction by Caroline Sosnowski; essays and clippings re activities of Sosnowski family in Europe and the United States during 19th and 20th centuries; genealogical information re the Herty, Peacock, Schaller, Sosnowski, and related families; clippings, obituaries, wedding announcements; and photographs. Volume, "Sosnowski family correspondence, 1853-1876 : copy of scrapbook of Mrs. James C. Seabrook" (legal size - photostatic copy) containing correspondence dating to antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras in South Carolina. Volume copied [ca. 1940s?] from an original in the possession of Mary Caroline Sosnowski Seabrook (1873-1961), the wife of James Clark Seabrook (1862-1940). Mrs. Seabrook was the daughter of Dr. Julius C. Sosnowski (1840-1876) and Susan Grace Townsend Sosnowski.
